Author Archives: Jim Vanderveen

About Jim Vanderveen

I'm a bit of a Renaissance man, with far too many hobbies for my free time! But more important than any hobby is my family. My proudest accomplishment has been raising some great kids! And somehow convincing my wife to put up with me since 1988. ;)

kilo: 1000 vs 1024

Is a “kilobyte” 1024 bytes, or 1000? The traditional answer is 1024. [Just an aside: “tradition” for a field that has only been around for a few decades. Chuckle.] The metric system, which defined the “kilo-” prefix to mean 1000, … Continue reading

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Spinach salad

A few days ago, we got some lunch at JD Willow’s in Galt where my wife had this awesome salad. Here’s our attempt at reverse engineering it. Greek spinach salad Ingredients: – spinach leaves – red onion, thinly sliced – … Continue reading

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Window screens are NOT included!

The trouble with screening double-hung windows… Continue reading

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Carpet on the walls?!?

Ever heard of somebody putting carpet on the walls? Neither had we, until… Continue reading

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J-blue theme not calling gatekeeper_pose_challenge automagically

I’m wondering if the known bug in gatekeeper 1.5 depends on which theme you’re running? I’m running journalized-blue, and it was rejecting comments with “Sorry, posting has been closed for the time being.” errors. I’m running Eric Meyer’s gatekeeper anti-spam … Continue reading

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Using WordPress tags? Don’t forget to re-apply the tags patch!

Thanks to Joseph and my blogroll, I saw the WordPress 1.5.1.3 security update. I forgot to re-apply the tags patch from Felix Wong’s tags plugin the first time through. Doh! Thanks for posting this, Joseph.

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EM ‘n EN

Just a quick little note about The Trouble With EM ’n EN. This is an awesome article on the lost art of typesetting and includes information on em dashes, en dashes, and all sorts of other “special” characters not included … Continue reading

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Podcasts and the I-pod Shuffle

If you look at my archives, you can see that I just recently started blogging (and reading blogs). So I missed this post on Acetylene.net. Zeno’s comment mentions listening to podcasts with an I-pod Shuffle. I’ve tried this before, and … Continue reading

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To-do list for tags support in other themes

Just thinking about what still needs to be done to get tags support in my other themes… Steam will need to have 4 files modified: archive.php index.php sidebar.php and single.php I’ve already modified at least one of these files for … Continue reading

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404 page added to J-blue

I added a 404 page to Mike Little’s journalized theme. It’s nothing fancy, just ripped the content area out of index.php and put some semi-helpful text in its place. This page should work for all of the Journalized themes, and … Continue reading

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